The Role of Competence and Leadership Style in Improving Employee Performance: Characteristics of Personality as Moderation Variables

The most crucial asset in the organization is human resources. The contribution of their work will greatly determine the success or failure of an organization in achieving its goals. Therefore, understanding of improved performance is a key strategy for organization success. This study aims to analyze the influence of competence and leadership style on employee performance, moderated by the characteristics of employees of PT. Fawwaz MM in the city of Makassar. The research was carried out at PT. Fawwaz MM, a contracting company in the city of Makassar, and the respondents were 32 employees. Data collection methods in this study are surveys using questionnaires. This research is descriptive verification, MRA (Moderating Regression Analysis) is used to test the hypothesis of the data. The results of the analysis showed that simultaneous competency and leadership style had a positive and significant effect on employee performance. While partially it appeared that competence had a positive and significant effect, but the leadership style had a positive but insignificant effect on employee performance. MRA test shows that characteristic personality only as homologiser moderator or moderation potential on the relationship between competency and employee performance as well as the relationship between leadership style and employee performance.